Dining review: Carbonella Creations is food love Italian style
Even among the Styrofoam containers for the carryout fare, love Italian style is in full bloom at Carbonella Creations. With only three barstools at a narrow counter inside and a picnic table in the parking lot, this is more a kitchen than a restaurant. No matter what it's called, the end product is fine Italian cuisine. This is the kind of fo...
Pizza, Gelato, Soccer and More Gelato
The North Dakota State soccer team has been out of the United States from March 12-20, touring Italy and San Marino. The Bison practiced, competed, learned how to make pizza and ate lots of gelato throughout their foreign trip. NDSU freshman forward Britney Monteon was kind enough to share her and the team's experiences with a daily blog p...
How Colorado Brewers Jump-started Italy's Craft Beer Scene
Sipping a fine Chianti may be your perfect image of Italian drinking. But what about having a beer? Italy's craft beer scene is very new. What started as 20 microbreweries 15 years ago has now expanded to more than 1,000. But that growth hasn't been without roadblocks, including complicated Italian bureaucracy and cultural infighting. ...
Michael Kramer Plans ‘Approachable’ Italian for Greenville
Chef Micheal Kramer, the opening executive chef of McCrady's (pre-Sean Brock), has spent the past three years in Greenville, SC with the Table 301 Restaurant Group. He also took on the role of executive chef at acclaimed eatery The Lazy Goat . Now, for his next project, Kramer will open Jianna on the second floor of 600 S. Main St. in January 2017....
Make and Take-Limoncello and Walker Art Center Italian Tour
Have you ever longed to create, and sip, your own limoncello? We are excited to offer our first "Make and Take-Limoncello activity! Join native Italian instructor, Romina Montanari, and learn to make the famous Italian liqueur. The TWO PART EVENT will begin at Valcucine, on Wednesday, July 30th. Valcucine is located at 275 Market Street, S...
The Meatball Spot opens at Mall of America
by Clare Kennedy A fast-casual Italian restaurant with a celebrity following has opened a satellite shop at the Mall of America. The Meatball Spot opened on the Bloomington mall's third level last Monday. The counter service-only concept offers four different meatballs, a salad menu and flatbreads. It's the first location out...
Review: New Little Italy restaurant — simply a hit — is brainchild of successful Omaha chef and bar owner
Paul Kulik runs some of the best restaurants in Omaha, and the James Beard Award semifinalist is known for his daring, often difficult cuisine. Ethan Bondelid is behind three of the city's most popular craft cocktail bars, and his ability to grab a trend and bring it to Omaha is well documented. Now the two old friends and former room...
Talayna’s Italian Restaurant Celebrates 51st Year
Talayna's Italian Restaurant, located at 68 Four Seasons Shopping Center, Chesterfield, MO will be celebrating their 51st anniversary. In recent months Talayna's has remodeled their restaurant and revised the menu to include new cuisines and lots of local craft beers. Talayna's has been in business for 51 years, but owned and managed by Me...
Cibare Italian Kitchen Opens at River City Casino & Hotel
River City Casino & Hotel today announced the opening of its newest dining experience, Cibare Italian Kitchen. Cibare features classic Italian recipes, Neopolitan-style pizza baked in a Wood Stone hearth oven, along with an Italian bakery and coffee shop. River City opened Asia Noodles, an authentic Vietnamese and Pan-Asian restaurant, Sept. 22...
Italian Brewer Alex Liberati Plans a New Brewery/Restaurant in Denver
by Jonathan Shikes American craft breweries have been shaking up the European beer world over the past few years by exporting their big bold flavors overseas. Now an Italian brewer wants to bring Italian-style beers to the United States. Alex Liberati, a restaurateur and owner of the Revelation Cat gypsy brewery in Rome, has bee...
Classic Italian fish stew a great tradition to try this holiday season
Every year around this time, we receive dozens of emails from our readers who are looking for ideas of what to serve on Christmas Eve. This week, we take our inspiration from the Italian tradition of serving fish on Christmas Eve with our recipe for a classic fish stew called Cioppino. Like so many Italian favorites, cioppino (choh-PE...
Chef brings southern Italian flavor to Colorado
Chef Kelly Whitaker spent 10 years in fine-dining restaurants in Italy and Los Angeles before coming to Colorado in 2008. Whitaker opened his first restaurant, Basta, a pizzeria and Italian restaurant, in Boulder in early 2010. He followed it in 2014 with Cart-Driver, a pizza joint and oyster bar inspired by the casual roadside spots in It...